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What I thought my body was for

Sport was not my category. I filed myself under something else early on — books, ideas, arguments, the life of the mind — and closed the door on the rest without many qualms. My parents had been sporty in their youth but didn’t particularly push me in that direction. The biggest influence on me was…


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The bloggers and our best habits

What’s one habit that has improved your life the most?


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Catherine’s plans for July and August involve both sitting and pedaling
It’s almost mid-July, but there’s plenty of summer left (I keep telling myself). And in fact, my two biggest getaway plans are ahead of me. This week I’m going to Boone, North Carolina for a 4-day meditation retreat with my favorite meditation teacher Jeff Warren. It will be held at the Art of Living retreat…

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Nat’s trying to "live like Doug”
It started as a joke a few years ago. My colleague Net would regale me with her retired husband’s adventures. Each morning Net would wake up early to walk Rodney, her hilarious Rottweiler. Doug would jump on his bike. Net would log in to work before 7am. Doug would go for a swim. Net took…

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Incompetent, blighted, senile: How medicine talks about women’s bodies and why we need to change it stat
I was 38 and a half when I was pregnant with my child. My ultrasound referral slip gave the reason for the scan as “late maternal age.” It could have been worse; I could have been described as having a geriatric pregnancy or being an elderly primigravida (first pregnancy after 35). Perhaps I should count…

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